"cruel" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

cruel adjetivo

cruel + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 113
cruel punishment • cruel treatment • cruel man • cruel joke • cruel thing • cruel world • ...
verbo + cruel
Kolokacji: 5
sound cruel • consider cruel • look cruel • seem cruel • turn cruel
adverbio + cruel
Kolokacji: 20
most cruel • particularly cruel • especially cruel • extremely cruel • unnecessarily cruel • ...
(1) most, downright
Kolokacji: 2
(3) extremely, exceedingly
Kolokacji: 2
(4) unnecessarily, needlessly
Kolokacji: 2
1. deliberately cruel = rozmyślnie okrutny deliberately cruel
2. terribly cruel = szalenie okrutny terribly cruel
  • This is a terribly cruel message because only a small proportion can be thin without detriment to their physical and emotional health.
  • She told me that she'd been terribly cruel in not telling you.
  • The universe, after all, could be a terribly cruel and arbitrary place.
  • I've begun to think more and more like this - it is terribly cruel of fate to have put these twenty years between us.
  • Was he somehow playing a terribly cruel trick on her?
  • But it's a terribly cruel way, the poor animals linger on for days with the wire cutting down to the bone, Jane elaborated.
  • They are terribly cruel to their enemies and those who oppose them.
  • I know it sounds terribly cruel, but it's the way things were done back then.
  • But time is so cruel to the human kind, so terribly cruel.
  • He was terribly cruel and the Russian people suffered badly under his rule.
4. equally cruel = tak samo okrutny equally cruel
5. unconstitutionally cruel = niezgodnie z konstytucją okrutny unconstitutionally cruel
6. doubly cruel = podwójnie okrutny doubly cruel
7. inherently cruel = z natury okrutny inherently cruel
8. notoriously cruel = notorycznie okrutny notoriously cruel
9. unspeakably cruel = okropnie okrutny unspeakably cruel
(6) incredibly, unbelievably
Kolokacji: 2
cruel + preposición
Kolokacji: 4
cruel to • cruel of • cruel in • cruel for

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